Reviews with content warning for Sexual harassment - The Hating Game

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The Hating Game by Sally Thorne

54 reviews

micaela_ru's review against another edition

medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? No
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

Toxic, sexist trash that casually includes ableist and racist slurs, jokes about the deaths of sex workers, fatphobia, toxic masculinity, rape culture and nonconsensual acts played as sexy. DNF @ 20%. The MC is an entitled childish brat who has internalized sexism and possibly homophobia and transphobia. The love interest is embodies textbook toxic masculinity. Clearly I'm not the target audience here. I don't think feeling physically threatened by a man three-times a woman's size is playful or sexy. Not to mention the stalking. They also have no chemistry and the book is boring and childish. This is the crap that is popular?

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flapidus's review against another edition

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funny relaxing slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

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emsim's review against another edition

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Unfortunately, there was a lot of fatphobia, ableism, and sexual harassment in the first few chapters. Instant DNF.

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sarahsreadinglist's review against another edition

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funny lighthearted medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

I went into this book with high expectations, as it was recommended all over BookTok as a cute enemies-to-lovers workplace romance. I do not think it lived up to the hype. One thing I disliked that sticks out in memory is the way the author repeatedly mentioned the male main character’s height in relation to the female main character’s shortness; it felt unnecessary and weirdly infantilizing to the female character.

I ultimately enjoyed the book, especially the drama and romantic tension between the characters, but I found it generally pretty mediocre.

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sosierra's review against another edition

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lighthearted relaxing medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.0

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writtenbydnicole's review against another edition

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medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character

2.5

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nadichocoladi's review against another edition

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funny lighthearted fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.0

The first half of the book was a little disappointing. Yet another romance trying to gloss over SA/SH* as romantic because ✨he’s attractive✨, but in the later part and especially the last few chapters I really found the the charm in this book that people talk about. I also really liked how the writer handled the Danny thing, story wise, and that spicy reveal at the wedding had my mouth drop.
Ignoring the few tropes and flaws this book has, it was a cute, quick read.

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The male lead stops the elevator, backs her into a corner lifts her up and kisses her “because he thought she didn’t actually have a date and is wearing that dress for him”. You could argue that she was in fact wearing it for him and she was kissing him back so it isn’t sa (yes it is), but later he reveals that he actively records if she’s wearing a dress or a skirt since the SECOND DAY they start working together and he pays attention to what type of bras she’s wearing, before they got romantically involved. I don’t know why the author thought this was okay and romantic and not creepy and even bordering on purely perverse, when they even incorporated a character that always stares down the cleavage of the female lead and is portrayed as gross, which in my opinion is not far off from what our male lead does here.
It made me really happy when I saw the trailer for the movie after reading this and saw they changed the scene in the elevator. Glad the screenwriters recognised it for what it was and knew where to draw the line at faithful adaptation.

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